Locative technologies seminar questions

* Existing application types for locative technologies
* Existing user types (humans, organizations) for locative technologies
* Locative component in social software.
* Different used technologies - in small devices, servers and client side.
  Position getting ways - Mobile masts, GPS, landmarks, stars ...  
* Possible uses of Onto Space Explorer with maps.
* Problems with locative technologies - and possible solutions now and in future.

* Cartography main fields. Different map types, different information showing in map.
* Ways to putting coordinate data to map - plain, cylinder, cone.
* Traditional ways to using maps. Existing and possible additions to it.
* Path finding algorithms between points (at example towns). Dijkstra.
* Different types marks in maps. Area, line and point marks.
* Coordinate calculating in maps. Degree, minute, second. 
  Latitude and longitude. Coast length calculating problem.
* Google Maps API. Basic commands, objects, possibilities. 
* KML


Locative application fields

Taxi getting
Speed cameras
Mobile parking
Flights tracking
Foursquare
Finding nearby places / Local search
Games
Navigations / directions
Archieving (places, kilometres, speed)
Locating antennas and other things
Position vechicles, distance calculation (autopäevik)

User types

Logistics companies, transportation
Police, fire, medics
Campers, hikers, tourists, pet owners.
Young active people
Visual disabilities 

Social locative software

Discovering places
Friend finding 
Pictures/videos with GPS tags
Marketing

Position getting ways

Satellite GPS
Assissant GPS (Satellite + Cell towers)
WiFi points
Click on map


Techologies using locative data

Google Maps
Panoramio
Flickr 
WikiHood
Layar

Onto Space Explorer

Finding places by options
Comments using locative data


Problems

Privacy
Accuracy (houses, disturbs, ...)
Data delay
Storing capacities, duration.
GPRS towers, scalability


Map types

Sea map
Landscape map
Town map 
Star map
Topographic maps
Moon, ship, plane map 
3D maps (Google Earth)

Traditional ways to using maps.

Search locations / way finding
Killing 
Education - geography
History
State orders
Sailing in sea